Word: disproportionation
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Most newsworthy of the League's findings were figures indicating a marked disproportion between urban Negro population and unemployment. Negroes, composing 17% of Baltimore's residents, account for 31% of that city's joblessness. In Charleston, S. C., half black, seven Negroes are out of work to...
Said the Chicago Tribune: "Everybody speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are...
The CRIMSON believes that overemphasis upon football in American colleges has reached the point where something constructive should and can be done to restore harmony and a proper-balance between that sport and academic pursuits. Acting upon this belief, the CRIMSON submits a program of definite suggestions which, it is...
In the English Department, however, it is still possible to receive a degree "magna cum" or "summa cum" without this oral examination. That department still distinguishes between a degree "with distinction" and a degree "with Honors". This latter, which requires a severe oral quiz and a long thesis in addition...
The Harvard Monthly enters on a fifty-eighth volume with unfortunate emphasis of Mr. Moyse's immoderate panegyric on Clayton Hamilton. Its would-be maturity of vocabulary coupled with "superfluent enthusiasm" and disproportion in criticizing the Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the...